Sentence examples for as strapped from inspiring English sources

People close to the Blackstone deal told DealBook that it was unlikely that a $2 billion loan to a company as strapped as Dynegy would be made with economically viable terms.

"I've never been at a place as strapped as we are now". The looming crisis, he said last week, stems from the governor's proposed budget for 1991-92, which reflects significant losses in state revenue resulting from the decline in the economy, coupled with the increased costs of maintaining necessary services such as prisons and welfare for a burgeoning population.

In the film, Stanfield's Cassius is as strapped for self-confidence as he is cash.

This can be prohibitively expensive for municipalities (particularly one as strapped as New York City's) but, as Angela Wong and co-authors for the Roosevelt Institution note, in ten years of operation time the City would be able to make up for the cost of construction.

Plus, he figured his buddies were as strapped for cash as he was and could never bankroll the dare.

Within three months, we lost that prison to those inmates". The report's findings offer ammunition for those decrying the trend toward privatizing prisons -- not only in Ohio, but across much of the country -- as strapped communities seek to raise revenue and minimize costs by handing control of inmates to profit-making entities.

The problem is that installing a child seat is not as easy as strapping on a seat belt.

Thanks to a recent invention by Berkeley engineers, measuring oxygen levels in the blood could soon be as simple as strapping a bandage on a finger.

About as crazy as strapping a digital camera onto a founder's car.

A death of my youth, a death of my virility, a death of any potential of me ever being described as "strapping".

Restraint is defined as strapping a patient to a bed with mechanical devices (belts).